When you haven't really been studying for a while, you forget how easy it is to get behind with things. I've had quite a hectic weekend, and I didn't manage to keep up with all the work I was meant to do. I went over to Chester for my cousins 21st birthday party. It was nice to see everyone, but it did mean that I couldn't really do much work.
Around came Monday morning, and a class on World Politics. The tutor asked if we had done the reading for that seminar, and I expected to be the only one who hadn't. Fortunately, most people hadn't done the reading either. I think that everyone (including me) is just a bit swamped with the work. It starts to build up really fast. The good news is that I should be back on track by the weekend.
I have to say, I'm really enjoying the course. All of the lectures are really interesting, and some of the discussions that we have in seminars are amazing. In the European Politics seminar, we started to discuss Turkey's admission to the EU, and someone revealed that they were Greek Cypriot, while another turned out to be Turkish. There seem to be a lot of foreign people on the course. I think it makes things like seminars more interesting. You get a chance to see issues from different perspectives. Particularly if there are two people on opposing sides of the issue.
I sort of meant to write this post about how swamped I am with work, but its turning out to be more of a positive “going well” post. So, to keep that theme going, I've found a small collection of really good ethical shops in Chorlton. At first, I was a bit weary of how I was going to get to them. Looking at the map, it seemed as if I was going to have to cycle right through the middle of Moss Side, but my mum came over to Manchester on Sunday, and we drove the route, and it doesn't seem all that bad. I think I'll cycle there tomorrow. I'm going to try to make a Chicken Korma on Friday. The shops themselves seem quite good. There's a Vegan grocery store called Unicorn. Its the first ethical shop I've been in that has trolleys! Just across the road from that, there's a nice looking deli, The Barbakan. Hopefully, I'll be able to get good bread, meats, and possibly even decent milk. Just to top it all off, there is Arkadash, a clothing store that only sells ethical clothes. They do a lot of nice stuff, and some of it is not even too expensive.
To finish this post off, I thought I would post a photo that I found earlier. I took it at a street party in Edinburgh a few months ago. I think it was part of the Save Our Old Town campaign. I just thought it was a nice picture, and wondered why I had never posted it before.
